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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Murder of Sabina Nessa

    • April 9, 2022
    • BBC News

    Primary school teacher Sabina Nessa was killed at random by a man with a history of violence.

  • S01E02 Stabbed in a Sanctuary

    • April 13, 2022
    • BBC News

    Sir David Amess MP was murdered by an IS fanatic, at a meeting in a church in Southend-On-Sea in Essex, UK.

  • S01E03 The Abuser Working for MI5

    • May 19, 2022
    • BBC News

    This is the story of a dangerous MI5 agent, which the government tried to keep secret.

  • S01E04 27 Years to Catch a Killer

    • June 25, 2022
    • BBC News

    Rikki Neave left for school but never came home. Decades on his killer has been jailed.

  • S01E05 Logan Mwangi: A Boy Betrayed

    • June 30, 2022
    • BBC News

    Logan Mwangi was five years old when he was murdered by the people he trusted.

  • S01E06 Deadly Browsing: The Lorry Driver

    • July 25, 2022
    • BBC News

    How a lorry driver, looking at dating sites while driving, went on to kill three.

  • S01E07 My Baby: Taken, Failed, Killed

    • July 28, 2022
    • BBC News

    Leiland-James was taken from his mother in hospital and placed in care. He went on to be killed by the woman who wanted to adopt him.

  • S01E08 The Doorstep Murder

    • September 30, 2022
    • BBC News

    It's one of Scotland's longest unsolved murder cases. Alistair Wilson was shot on his doorstep almost 20 years ago. Are police any closer to finding who killed him and why?

  • S01E09 The Suitcase Murderer

    • October 28, 2022
    • BBC News

    Revealing the killer who decapitated her friend and dumped her body.

  • S01E10 Catching the Cult Movie Killer

    • November 10, 2022
    • BBC News

    Jacqueline Kirk was badly disfigured after being set alight in 1998 by her ex-boyfriend Steven Craig. She then died in 2019 from complications relating to the injuries she suffered.

  • S01E11 Killing My Children's Abuser

    • November 23, 2022
    • BBC News

    Sarah Sands stabbed to death a convicted paedophile who was accused of abusing three more young boys. BBC News can reveal, for the first time, that they were all her children. Now all three boys have become adults, they speak, alongside their mum, about the killing, and subsequent events

  • S01E12 Killed Walking Home

    • December 14, 2022
    • BBC News

    Zara Aleena was killed walking back from a night out by a sexual predator, only recently released from prison, labelled a "danger to any woman".

  • S01E13 Groomed, Radicalised, Gone

    • January 3, 2023
    • BBC News

    The schoolgirl charged with terrorism, but found to have been exploited. Rhianan Rudd, 15, was the youngest girl to be charged with terrorism offences in the UK. She took her own life in 2022. Her mum says investigators should have seen her daughter as "a victim rather than a terrorist".

  • S01E14 Found Under the Floor

    • February 7, 2023
    • BBC News

    The story of Bennylyn and Jellica who were murdered after starting a new life in the UK.

  • S01E15 Twenty Minutes of Terror

    • February 24, 2023
    • BBC News

    A gunman kills five people within minutes. Could the shootings have been prevented?

  • S01E16 Homegrown Terrorist

    • March 11, 2023
    • BBC News

    How was Salman Abedi from Manchester radicalised to the point where he could kill, and could the Manchester Arena bombing have been stopped?

  • S01E17 The Lie That Destroyed a Town

    • March 17, 2023
    • BBC News

    The story of false accusations about being the victim of a grooming gang and how it sent shockwaves through a small town in the North of England.

  • S01E18 Caught in the Crossfire

    • April 3, 2023
    • BBC News

    Nine year old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed when shots were fired into her family home.

  • S01E19 30 Years for Justice

    • April 10, 2023
    • BBC News

    Nikki Allan's murder shocked Sunderland. Why did it take so long to catch her killer?

  • S01E20 Stephen Lawrence: The Sixth Suspect

    • June 26, 2023
    • BBC News

    This investigation by reporter Daniel De Simone identifies a new suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder. For decades, five men have been suspected of the attack; new evidence identifies a sixth.

  • S01E21 The Sunshine Scammer

    • June 28, 2023
    • BBC News

    Lyne Barlow is a bogus travel agent from County Durham, conning hundreds of holidaymakers and her family in a £2.6 million scam, which also saw her lie about a cancer diagnosis.

  • S01E22 Killed on Christmas Eve

    • July 17, 2023
    • BBC News

    Elle Edwards was shot dead as she celebrated Christmas Eve, in a murder that shocked the UK. We follow her dad Tim as he deals with the devastation of his daughter’s death.

  • S01E23 The Killing in the Lane

    • July 12, 2023
    • BBC News

    Lilia Valutyte died from a single stab wound in her chest. Her killer was found unfit to plead, but a jury determined in a trial of the facts he killed the nine-year-old.

  • S01E24 Killed on Duty

    • July 27, 2023
    • BBC News

    Sgt Matt Ratana was shot and killed on duty by a handcuffed prisoner just three months before he had been due to retire.

  • S01E25 Unmasking a Fugitive

    • August 2, 2023
    • BBC News

    The story of Nicholas Rossi - the US fugitive who came to the UK with a new identity after faking his own death. He claims he is called Arthur Knight and is a victim of mistaken identity, but a sheriff in Scotland is sending him back to Utah to face rape charges. We speak to the people who knew Nicholas Rossi in his previous life in America and chart his story from there to his discovery by police in a hospital bed in Glasgow.

  • S01E26 Deadly Influence

    • September 1, 2023
    • BBC News

    The story of a social media influencer, her mum and a murder plot.

  • S01E27 The Missing Mum

    • September 28, 2023
    • BBC News

    This is the story of Linda Razzell who vanished on her way to work more than 20 years ago. Her husband was found guilty of her murder. Now, in 2023, will he reveal where her body is in order to be released on parole?

  • S01E28 The Commons Criminal

    • October 13, 2023
    • BBC News

    The MP who rose from obscurity to being imprisoned for fraud. The story of Jared O'Mara.

  • S01E29 Killed By My Boyfriend

    • October 25, 2023
    • BBC News

    The story of a young mum killed by her boyfriend of eight weeks. When Christopher McGowan was released on bail from a prison in Scotland, a court ordered he should stay at the home of his new girlfriend, Claire Inglis. He was a known criminal with a string of previous convictions and within weeks Claire was dead.

  • S01E30 The Doping Ward

    • December 19, 2023
    • BBC News

    The hospital unit where patients were drugged to keep them "quiet and compliant".

  • S01E31 The Student Who Never Came Home

    • December 21, 2023
    • BBC News

    Murdered in France while on a university placement. Is it finally time for justice

  • S01E32 Killed In The Park

    • February 2, 2024
    • BBC News

    Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death - two teenagers tried to get away with murder.

  • S01E33 Held Captive And Left To Die

    • March 1, 2024
    • BBC News

    Shakira Spencer was 35 years old when her body was found by the police. She had been tortured and starved by people she considered friends.

  • S01E34 The Nottingham Attacks

    • March 7, 2024
    • BBC News

    Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were killed in a series of stabbings by one man on the streets of Nottingham in the summer of 2023.

  • S01E35 The Executioner Next Door

    • March 8, 2024
    • BBC News

    The quiet Irishman behind the high hedge had a history his neighbours could have never guessed: the man they knew as 'Frank' was really Freddie Scappaticci, a man with many secrets. Not only had he been an Irish Republican Army killer, he was at the same time an agent for the Army – perhaps their most important source inside the IRA, with access to their most sensitive secrets.

  • S01E36 The Dance Floor Murder

    • April 8, 2024
    • BBC News

    The story of footballer Cody Fisher who was stabbed to death in a nightclub in Birmingham.

  • S01E37 Killer in the Attic

    • April 12, 2024
    • BBC News

    When Michael Riddiough-Allen is stabbed to death outside a nightclub in Cornwall, armed police track down his killer to a nearby house where he was found hiding in the attic

  • S01E38 The House Party Murder

    • May 3, 2024
    • BBC News

    How a house party turned into a murder scene - the fatal stabbing of Mikey Roynon.